Stinsford is a Town in the county of Dorset.

Retail in Stinsford

There are great places to visit near Stinsford including some great towns, waterfalls, villages, historic buildings, historic monuments, ancient sites, hills, castles, ruins and airports.

The area around Stinsford boasts some of the best towns including Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Weymouth, Bridport, Beaminster, Wareham, and Blandford Forum.

There are a number of waterfalls near to Stinsford including Jericho Weir.

There are a number of villages near Stinsford including Uplyme, Bincombe, Symondsbury, and Abbotsbury.

The area around Stinsford's best historic buildings can be found at The Cobb.

The area around Stinsford's best historic monuments can be found at King's Statue (King George III Statue).

Stinsford's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Eggardon Hill, Hambledon Hill, Badbury Rings, Kingston Russell Stone Circle, The Nine Stones, and Maiden Castle.

Places near Stinsford feature a number of interesting hills including Eggardon Hill.

Corfe Castle is a great place to visit close to Stinsford if you like castles.

The area around Stinsford's best ruins can be found at Corfe Castle.

The area around Stinsford's best airports can be found at Bournemouth Airport.

Stinsford History

There are some historic monuments around Stinsford:

• Round barrow N of Boswell's Plantation
• Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House
• Round barrow SW of Ashton Cottages
• Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole
• Barrow S of Common Plantation
• Bowl barrow 615m north east of Hardy's Birthplace
• Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields
• Barrow S of Three-Cornered Plantation
• Earthworks on Giant Hill
• Round barrow SW of Bourne Farm
• Round barrow SW of Wolfeton Clump
• Round barrow on Dickley Hill
• Colliton Park Roman house
• Barrow S of Tinker's Barrow Plantation
• Bowl barrow 380m west of Whitfield Farm
• Round barrow on Cheselbourne West Down
• Friar Waddon Hill round barrows
• Disc barrow 715m west of Bayard Farm
• Bowl barrow 500m north east of Clandon Farm
• Two bowl barrows 320m south west of Laycock Dairy Farm
• Round barrow NE of Hog Hill Barn
• Two round barrows at Down Wood
• Roman road in Kingston Park
• Six round barrows W of Came Down
• Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill, west and north west of Maiden Castle
• Medieval standing cross 6m north east of St Martin's Church
• Bell barrow 70m west of Fidler's Green
• Upton Fort, a coastal artillery battery and two searchlight emplacements
• Preston Roman villa
• Medieval settlement at West Ringstead
• Enclosure near 'the Sole Plantation'
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 740m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
• Group of round barrows on and to E of Great Hill
• Three barrows N of Penn Hill
• Group of round barrows on North Bincombe Hill, S of Came Wood
• Medieval settlement at Holworth
• Round barrows on Four Barrow Hill
• Settlement on Smacam Down
• Medieval settlement of North Louvard
• Round barrows on Ridgeway
• Six round barrows on Bincombe Down
• Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill 500m north of Whitcombe Farm
• Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House
• Dorchester Roman walls
• Medieval settlement of Little Piddle
• Bowl barrow on Pond Eweleaze 500m north east of Dole's Ash Farm
• Round barrow on Ridgeway Hill
• Group of barrows E of Northdown Barn
• Icehouse at Ringstead, 660m south west of Pit House
• Group of four round barrows in Cripton Wood
• Medieval settlement remains at Whitcombe
• Three round barrows on Puddletown Down
• Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 800m south west of Coombe Barn
• Maiden Castle
• Roman road over Thorncombe Wood and Black Heath
• Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill
• Round barrow in Grimstone Clumps
• Multi-period landscape including an Iron Age or Romano British settlement, part of an associated field system, six bowl barrows and an enclosure 600m south east of Langford Farm
• Herringston round barrows
• Round barrow cemetery immediately south east of Maiden Castle
• Group of round barrows near Eweleaze Barn
• Medieval settlement of Winterborne Farringdon and associated remains
• Two square enclosures in Tenant's Bottom
• The Rainbarrows, a group of three bowl barrows on Duddle Heath
• Bowl barrow 600m south of Whitcombe Farm
• Two bowl barrows on Green Hill 450m north of Pound Farm
• Four barrows on Moigns Down
• Bowl barrow 360m south west of Clandon Farm
• Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village
• Hill figure called The Giant
• Deserted village of Bardolfeston
• Two round barrows on Ridgeway
• Court Close settlement remains
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
• Round barrow S of Manor Farm
• Cross in St Mary's churchyard
• Cerne Park boundary bank
• Group of round barrows on Ridgeway
• Four bowl barows 710m north, 750m north west and 950m north west of Clyffe House
• Four bowl barrows immediately north west of Maiden Castle
• Settlement and field system on Black Hill
• Henge Enclosure, Conquer Barrow and Barrow Cemetery
• Earthwork and ancient fields SE of Lyscombe Bottom
• Three bowl barrows on Puddletown Heath, 550m south west of Beacon Corner
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 600m west of Stafford Farm
• Long barrow immediately north west of Maiden Castle
• Bowl barrow 75m south east of Laycock Dairy Farm
• Lord's Barrow: a bowl barrow 500m north of Northground Dairy
• Round barrow N of Ashton Cottages
• Bowl barrow on Burleston Down 840m south east of Crawthorne Farm
• George III, chalk-cut hill side figure
• Bell barrow in Highfield Plantation and two bowl barrows immediately north west of Forty Acre Plantation
• Bowl barrow on Wood Hill 310m north east of Cowden
• Tithe barn (uninhabited portion) at Barton Farm
• Two bowl barrows 200m south east of Hill Barn: two of a group of three barrows
• Henge, Romano-British amphitheatre and Civil War fieldworks known collectively as Maumbury Rings
• Three barrows S of Poxwell Big Wood
• Round barrow 250yds (230m) W of Fryer Mayne manor house
• Round barrow on Hog Leaze
• Six barrows on Ridgeway Hill
• Fishpond at West Ringstead, 590m south of Pit House
• Part of Roman, Saxon, and medieval town in grounds of Wollaston House
• Group of three round barrows NE of Jackman's Cross
• Round barrow E of Forston Farm
• Two bowl barrows 560m south east of Hill Barn
• Two barrows 600yds (550m) N of Halls Farm
• Two round barrows SW of Well House Cottage
• Sandy Barrow W of East Farm Dairy
• Mayne stone circle (at Little Mayne Farm)
• Bowl barrow 400m south east of Melcombe Newton House
• Tudor and 17th century farmstead and Romano-British settlement
• Barrows in Came Wood
• Kerbed cairn 590m south east of Poxwell Manor
• Long barrow and four bowl barrows 500m north west of Whitfield Farm
• Earthwork in Bowley's Plantation
• Round barrow N of Ridgeway
• Round barrow N of Heave Coppice
• Group of barrows in Seven Barrow Plantation
• Round barrow NE of Friar Waddon
• Group of barrows S of Goldsmith's Plantation
• Bowl barrow1050m WNW of Manor Farm
• Three bowl barrows 530m and 350m north east of Whitcombe Barn
• Round barrow E of Bayard's Barn
• Churchyard cross
• Group of round barrows W of Ridgeway Hill
• Group of barrows on the golf course, Came Down
• Four bowl barrows at the eastern end of Waterston Ridge, 490m south west and 500m south east of Ridge Farm
• Bowl barrow 200m south east of Hill Barn: one of a group of three barrows
• Group of barrows on West Hill
• Two bowl barrows on Lord's Down 580m south east of Crawthorne Farm
• Barrow S of Wolfeton Clump
• Round barrow 1/4 mile (400m) N of Ridge Hill
• Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill
• Medieval settlement immediately west of Waterston House
• Sandy Barrow
• Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood
• Group of round barrows NE of Hog Leaze
• Seven round barrows NW of Lyscombe Bottom
• Ancient settlement SW of Incombe Wood
• Round barrow on Stratton Down
• Three bowl barrows at the western end of Waterston Ridge, 360m north west of Fidler's Green Farm
• Three barrows S of Hart Hill Plantation
• Settlement on Dickley Hill
• Bowl barrow on East Hill 510m north east of All Saints Church
• Poundbury Camp, associated monuments and section of Roman aqueduct.
• Discontinuous surviving sections of Roman aqueduct
• Round barrow on Black Hill
• Two barrows W of Little Piddle Down
• Round barrow N of Forston Barn
• Barrow on Galton Heath
• Bingham's Melcombe deserted village
• Two barrows on Little Puddle Hill
• Bowl barrow on Little Puddle Hill, 920m north west of Fidler's Green Farm
• Culliford Tree long barrow and group of round barrows
• Ancient settlement E of Lyscombe Bottom
• Long barrow 400yds (360m) NW of Hill Barn
• Medieval settlement 850m north of St Mary's Church
• Two bowl barrows 720m south east of Friar Waddon House
• Oval barrow and three bowl barrows 250m and 330m south of Whitcombe Barn
• Bowl barrow on Wancombe Hill 380m south west of southern corner of Sherriffs Wood
• Bowl barrow on Green Hill 400m north of Pound Farm
• Barrow on College Down
• Two round barrows N of Came Farm
• Cross-ridge dyke on Windsbatch
• Round barrow NW of Jackman's Cross
• Barrow 200yds (180m) N of the White Horse
• Lyscombe Farm chapel
• Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent
• Two round barrows on Ridgeway
• Two round barrows N of Bincombe Barn
• The Clandon Barrow, 450m west of Clandon Farm
• Cerne Abbey, site of, including gatehouse, guesthouse and wine house (barn)
• Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy
• Settlement remains N of Maiden Castle
• Two round barrows S of Ashton Farm
• Two round barrows in Doles Hill Plantation
• Long barrow, three bell barrows, fancy barrow and a linear earthwork 800m north of Maiden Castle
• Round barrow W of Druce Higher Barn
• Linear earthworks around Lyscombe Bottom
• Barrow E of Red Barn